Prof. C. Leonard Huskins

Abstract

PROF. C. LEONARD HUSKINS, professor of genetics in McGill University, has been appointed professor of botany in the University of Wisconsin, in succession to Prof. C. E. Allen, who is retiring. Prof. Huskins' appointment takes effect from September 1. Prof. Huskins was born in Walsall, England, in 1897; he went to Canada with his parents at the age of ten, and was educated at Red Deer, Alberta, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, obtaining the degrees B.Sc. Agr. in 1923 and M.Sc. in 1925. As Overseas Scholar of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, he went to the University of London (King's College) during 1925–27, when he obtained a Ph.D. in botany. He was then research cytologist at the John Innes Horticultural Institute until 1930. In 1930 he was appointed associate professor of botany in McGill University. Then he established the Department of Genetics and was appointed professor of genetics in 1934. Prof. Huskins has worked chiefly on the cytogenetics of cereals and liliaceous plants, the origin of species through polyploidy and on chromosome structure. At the University of Wisconsin his teaching and research will be devoted mainly to cytology.